Much like its creator, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence chatbot Grok was preoccupied with South African racial politics on social media this week, posting unsolicited claims about the persecution and “genocide” of white people.

Some X users on Wednesday asked Grok – the AI chatbot available through Elon Musk’s social media platform – questions about simple topics like baseball players or videos of fish being flushed down toilets.

In a post on X on Thursday, xAI said it would update the system to address the problem. XAI said that early on Wednesday the unauthorized change was made to Grok's response software, circumventing the normal review process.